{"id":524096,"date":"2026-03-07T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:15:09","slug":"vale-jamie-dunn-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/524096\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale: Jamie Dunn | TV Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEntertainer Jamie Dunn, best known as the puppeteer behind Agro, has died.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Entertainer Jamie Dunn, best known as the puppeteer behind Agro, has died, aged 76.<\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane entertainer rose to national fame in the 1990s as the star of the children\u2019s program Agro\u2019s Cartoon Connection.<\/p>\n<p>Agro\u2019s Cartoon Connection across the seven years of the show which ran from 1990 \u2013 1997, filmed predominantly at BTQ7.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon show was co-hosted by Ann-Maree Biggar, Terasa Livingstone, Holly Brisley, with Ranger Stacey Thomson (pictured left).<\/p>\n<p>Dunn (pictured right) was also a major figure in Queensland radio, helping lead B105\u2019s Morning Crew during a dominant run in Brisbane breakfast ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Across a career spanning decades in television, radio and live entertainment, his sharp wit and irreverent humour left a lasting mark on Australian kids television and made Agro one of the country\u2019s most recognisable characters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This post updates.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entertainer Jamie Dunn, best known as the puppeteer behind Agro, has died. Entertainer Jamie Dunn, best known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-524096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}